Pipelines and ancillaries Inspections to ISO 17020 accredited third-party inspection

LMATS  is ISO 17020 accredited for Pipelines and ancillaries

A pipeline entails inspection and testing at several stages of asset life, from inception to decommissioning.

• Some of the stages that need inspection and or testing stages are:
  • Steelmaking for pipes
  • Pipe manufacturing
  • Pipeline welding
  • Ancillaries connected to pipelines such as pumps, water baths and conditioners
  • In-service inspection of pipelines
  • Maintenance, pre-repair and post-repair stages
  • Decommissioning, recommissioning of pipelines.

In addition, to ISO 17025 accredited independent testing services, LMATS  also offers ISO 17020 accredited inspections of witnessing and surveillance services during the following stages 

• Steelmaking for pipes
  • Review or witnessing of chemical, mechanical, microscopic tests and NDT 
• Pipe manufacturing
  • Witnessing or surveillance of electromechanical processing of steel to form a pipe
  • Review or witnessing of dimensional, chemical, mechanical, microscopic tests and NDT
  • Review of material certificate for physical and chemical properties
  • Pre-shipment quantity surveying, general pipe dimensions measurement and condition record
  • Port of Arrival shipment inspection, witnessing sampling and testing
• Pipeline welding
  • Material certificate review
  • WPS/PQR development or witnessing
  • Witnessing welding machine verification
  • Welder qualification and weld consumables qualification witnessing
  • Witnessing mechanical test, metallurgical & chemical composition test, NDT on welded test coupons
  • Pipe fit-up and weld preparation inspection and witnessing of NDT
  • Supervision or witnessing of production welding
  • Visual inspection of the completed weld
  • Witnessing of NDT on a completed weld
  • Witnessing pressure tests
  • Coating inspection and final inspection
  • ITP & MDR compilation or review.
• Ancillaries to pipeline
  • Similar activities as for a pipeline on pipe fittings and components such as bends, elbows, tees, nipples, valves, flanges, fasteners, clamps, pipe supports, etc
  • Port of Arrival shipment inspection, witnessing sampling and testing for pipes, shapes, welded components, wrought products, fasteners, fittings, flanges, etc
• Pipeline in-service inspection
  • General visual inspection
  • Coating and cathodic protection condition assessment
  • Corrosion and integrity assessment
  • Witnessing and review NDT such as LRUT, ECA, PEC, PAUT, TOFD, LFET, CRT, SRUT, RT, UT, ET, MT, PT
  • Witnessing or review of in-situ chemical analysis by portable O.E.S. spectroscopy, lamination testing and hardness testing to relate material grade.
• Pipeline maintenance, pre-repair and post-repair
  • Dig-up inspection, hot tapping witnessing, general condition survey
  • Witnessing in-situ chemical analysis by portable O.E.S. spectroscopy, lamination testing and hardness
  • Review of replication microscopy results
  • WPS/PQR review, witnessing of welder qualification and associated testing
  • Repair activity witnessing
  • Visual inspection of the completed weld and witnessing NDT
  • Coating inspection and final acceptance inspection.
• Pipeline decommissioning & recommissioning inspection
  • General visual inspection, coating and condition assessment documenting before decommissioning
  • Condition and integrity assessment before recommissioning.
    
    

LMATS offers ISO 17020 accredited services from its Australia wide branches - Melbourne, Victoria, Albury, Sydney, Newcastle in NSW, Brisbane in Queensland and Perth in WA. Additionally, LMATS can execute inspection services at any other location at request.

• Common Standards covered in the above activities are
  • AS 2885.2 and AS 2885.5 and similar
  • AS 4041, AS 4458, AS 4037, AS/NZS 3992, AS 2890
  • AS 3920, AS/NZS 3788, AS 4343, AS 1271 and similar
  • ASME IX, ASME V, ASME BPV and similar
  • ISO 15614 series, ISO 9606 series, DIN EN 970
  • Similar internationally recognised standards directly and indirectly related to engineering pipes and pipelines, welding, fabrication, manufacturing, testing Standards.

LMATS can act as a purchaser’s representative and conduct activities as per client specification in several areas of engineering where ISO 17020 accreditation is not applicable. In all activities, LMATS will apply the same principles of the Accreditation Standard.

Clients will benefit from the value addition from all LMATS inspectors whare highly experienced and qualified in the relevant field of testing and inspection.

Clients will benefit from the value addition from all LMATS inspectors who are qualified and experienced and qualified in the relevant field of testing and inspection. Additionally, most of the inspectors are approved testers under ISO 17025 and hence their experience is verified in the form of a proficiency test and demonstration of continuity of testing experience.

A true quality assurance, from LMATS experience!

Contact us today and find out how an LMATS   for Pipelines and ancillaries equipment Inspections to ISO 17020 by an accredited third-party inspection

.